[LINK] Fwd: Expert Panel: The Seven Stages of IPv6 Adoption

[Kim Holburn]

On 2009/Mar/26, at 9:30 AM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>
>>> From:   Greg Wood <wood at isoc.org>
>>> Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:16:03 -0700
>>> Subject:   [ISOC] Expert Panel: The Seven Stages of IPv6 Adoption
>>
>>
>> The Seven Stages of IPv6 Adoption
>> 24 March 2009
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> Audio archive and slides from the IPv6 panel at IETF 74 organized  
>> by the
>> Internet Society are now posted at:
>>
>> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ipv6panel/
>
> My guess is that mass adoption of IPv6 will accelerate to Critical  
> Mass (TM)
> when a rather large media and/or service provider moves to IPv6 and  
> leaves
> IPv4 behind.
>
> Microsoft Windows was catapulted into TCP/IP after being one of the  
> latter
> stalwarts tring something else. With the advent of TCP/IP on  
> Winders, the
> commercialisation of the 'Net took off. Perhaps a coincidence.
>
> If Microsoft adopted IPv6 as an experiment, then a beta, then a  
> duplicate
> service alongside IPv4 and finally as solely IPv6, you can bet the  
> rest of
> world would follow.

My understanding is that the three main end device OS's: Windows,  
MacOS and Linux all do IPv6 and have done for a while.  It's the  
consumer edge devices and the ISPs that are the main issues.  I could  
be completely wrong about that.

Just lately with all the big media attention on trying to stop P2P and  
the push-back involving arguing that NAT means that it's impossible to  
narrow a machine to an IP(v4), I worry that with IPv6 everyone and our  
dogs and our fridges and our phones and our crackberries and that  
webcam in the hall are all going to be out there and public on the  
internet6.

If for instance you discover the IPv6 address of the PM or the POTUS  
then anyone in the world might get to know that.  It's a privacy worry.

> Someone will have to make the first move. Perhaps a fridge  
> manufacturer ;)

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